COVID 19: 276 New Cases Push Total Infections To 8,344

Oyinlola Awonuga
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276 new cases of the novel coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria on Tuesday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has disclosed.

This was announced by the NCDC when the agency published the latest COVID-19 update via its verified Twitter handle.

In its breakdown of the latest results, the NCDC said Lagos reported 161 of the new cases.

Other states with new cases include Rivers with 36, Edo with 27, Kaduna with 19, Nasarawa with 10, and Oyo with six.

There were also four new cases found in Kano, three each in Delta and Ebonyi, two in Gombe and one each in Ogun, Ondo, Borno, Abia, and Bauchi.

The number of discharged cases rose from 2,311 on Monday to 2,385. However, 16 more deaths were recorded, taking the nation’s death toll to 249.

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